This example illustrates the PERT statistical approach ... that you may ignore all activities that are not on the critical path in the deterministic problem that is derived by setting the activity ...

For example, if an arrow is drawn from task ... of the best-case scenario The expected time accounts for problems and obstacles A PERT chart is similar to a critical path analysis, which is ...

PERT and CPM belong within Network Theory, a variety of mathematical analysis originating in electrical engineering, but applicable to problems in many other areas ... Other cases are too complex -- ...